Press Archives Press "CITY OFFERS PARK BUILDING FOR BLACK MUSEUM" - Seattle PI - January 14, 1986 "WE'LL NEVER GIVE UP, SAY ACTIVISTS AT COLMAN SCHOOL" - Seattle PI - February 19, 1986 "SCHOOL'S OCCUPANTS ASK FOR ELECTRICITY" - March 6, 1986 "COLMAN SCHOOL SIT-IN WILL CONTINUE TILL MUSEUM DISPUTE IS RESOLVED, ARTIST SAYS" - April 28, 1986 "ROYER WANTS ETHNIC-MUSEUM PROPOSAL TO BE SEPARATE" - Seattle PI - June 25, 1986 "BLACKS DENOUNCE ARYAN CONVENTION" - Seattle PI - July 18, 1986 "DELAYS DIM HOPE FOR ETHNIC MUSEUM" -Seattle PI - September 28, 1986 "CITY BOOSTS EFFORT FOR BLACK MUSEUM" - October 14, 1986 "BOARD TO CONSIDER NEW SITE FOR COLMAN SCHOOL" - Seattle PI - April 20, 1987 "BLACK HERITAGE MUSEUM SUPPORTED" - Seattle PI - July 11, 1987 "THE COLMAN OCCUPATION HERITAGE MUSEUM EFFORT HASN'T DIED OUT" - Seattle PI - February 17, 1993 "NEIGHBORS SAY SQUATTERS FOUL OLD SCHOOL SITE" - Seattle PI - June 28, 1993 "End May Be Near In School Standoff " - Seattle Times - October 15, 1993 "Black-Heritage Museum Backers Uniting At Last -- Community Aid Sought For `Enormous' Task" - Seattle Times - September 6, 1994 "NEW VISION SEEN FOR AN OLD BUILDING" - Seattle PI - May 29, 1995 "Public Accounting Needed -- African American Heritage Museum Project Seems Stalled" - Seattle Times - July 26, 1996 "Public Hearing To Air Selling Of Former School" - Seattle Times - August 14, 1996 "Hearing On Colman Site Delayed" - Seattle Times - August 15, 1996 "WHOSE DREAM IS IT?" - Seattle PI - August 18, 1996 "Trouble in the Ebony Tower' - Washington Free Press September 1996 "Fire Damages Old Colman Elementary" - Seattle Times - December 14, 1996 Vision building: Architecture for communities and their cultural centers - Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce - 1997 "Old School's Future Finally May Be Resolved" Seattle Times - July 22, 1997 "Colman School To Get New Life As African-American Museum" - Seattle Times - July 24, 1997 Black community under attack in liberal Seattle - Editorial - December 5, 1997 "Art Made By Many Hands Helps Celebrate Kwanzaa" - Seattle Times - December 28, 1997 "Who's Museum is This" - Washington Free Press Jan/Feb 1998 "Once more, with feeling" - Seattle Weekly - March 18, 1998 "Making History" - Eat The State March 24, 1998 "2 Ousted From Construction Trailers" - Seattle Times - June 4, 1998 "2 Arrested At Site Of Future Museum" - Seattle Times - June 5, 1998 "Police Keeping Watch At School Site" - Seattle Times - June 12, 1998 "Building A Museum: A Few Pieces Of Insight" - Seattle Times - June 21, 1998 "Museum Project Demands, Deserves Adequate Funding" - Seattle Times - November 22, 1998 "Dissension between original dreamers and civic heavy-hitters exists to this day" - Seattle PI -March 14, 1999 "'Dreamers' still working for African-American Museum" - Seattle PI - March 24, 1999 "A Museum Divided" (scroll down) - The Stranger - Mar 25 - Mar 31, 1999 "African-American Museum Up Against Oct. 31 Deadline" - Seattle Times - September 12, 1999 "Worthy museum needs new bosses" - Seattle PI - September 17, 1999 African-American Museum -- Not In It For Personal Gain" - Seattle PI - October 17, 1999 "African-American Museum Faces Deadline" - Seattle Times - October 28, 1999 "District Unlikely To Vote On Center" - SeattleTimes - November 3, 1999 "School Board will renegotiate sale of museum site" - Seattle PI - November 4, 1999 "Colman School Talks Continue" - Seattle Times - November 4, 1999 "Museum Gets Extended Deadline" - Seattle Times - November 5, 1999 "AAHMCC WTO March Press Release" (scroll down) - November 30, 1999 "Fight Over School Building Goes On" - Seattle Times - December 10, 1999 "The dream that won't die" - Seattle Weekly - March 1, 2000 "Turf War: Heritage Museum factions fight on" - Eat The State March 2000 "African-American museum takes 'two big steps' forward" - Seattle PI - March 16, 2000 "Heritage museum plan may be history" - Seattle PI - July 4, 2000 "African-American museum may be doomed by feud" - Seattle Times - July 4, 2000 "Crowd protests school racism" - Seattle Times - July 6, 2000 "Colman School: City can turn land into much-needed play field" - Seattle PI - July 12, 2000 "Urban League may buy school" - Seattle Times - August 23, 2000 "Urban League puts money on museum" - Seattle PI - August 23, 2000 "A promising new future for Colman School" - Seattle Times - August 24, 2000 "Show board the money" - Seattle PI - August 26, 2000 "New dream for old school: Will it take an 'Urban League Village' to save Colman?" - Seattle Times - April 9, 2001 "Supporters of museum for African American history collide over plan" - Seattle PI - May 1, 2001 "City may back Colman plans" - Seattle Times - May 1, 2001 Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce - September 24, 2001 "Urban League joins fight for black history museum" - Seattle PI - March 27, 2002 "Forum next week on Colman School plans" - Seattle PI - March 28, 2002 "Urban League head flashed gun" - Seattle Times - May 30, 2002 "Kelly says he's been the target of threats" - Seattle Times - May 31, 2002 "Urban League's Kelly charged in school-gun case" - Seattle Times - June 4, 2002 "Urban League leader faces weapons charge" - Seattle PI - July 5, 2002 "City right to bring charge in gun case" - Seattle PI - July 23, 2002 "Urban League president sorry about gun" - Seattle Times - August 8, 2002 "Schools don't ban Kelly for gun infraction" - Seattle Times - August 24, 2002 "African American museum revives" - Seattle PI - September 25, 2002 "Contributions pouring in for black museum" - Seattle Times - September 26, 2002 "Black museum nears a milestone" - Seattle Times - January 21, 2003 "Deal near on Colman building" - Seatt;e Times - February 22, 2003 "Deal reached to sell Colman School for less than half its value" - Seattle Times - February 26, 2003 "School Board plans vote on sale of Colman" - Seattle PI - February 27, 2003 "Colman School deal: something of value" - Seattle Times - February 28, 2003 "Property deals bring smiles to Seattle School District" - Seattle Times - February 28, 2003 "Over objections, board OKs sale of old Colman School" - Seattle Times - March 6, 2003 "Urban League boss fulfills dream: a home for black history here" -Seattle Times - March 28, 2003 "State asked to offer capital to emerging businesses" - Seattle Times - April 2, 2003 "Museums are in it for the long haul" - Seattle PI - December 23, 2003 Urban League near to filling museum job - Seattle Times - September 17, 2004 Director of new African American Museum appointed - October 8, 2004 Closer to history" - Seattle Times - October 12, 2004 "We have a unique story to tell" - Seattle Times - January 16, 2005 It's time to tell the stories of region's black history - Seattle Times - March 2, 2005 Funding announced for Urban League Village at Colman School - Press Release - May 26, 2005 Murray Secures Economic Development Funding for Puget Sound Projects - Press Release - July 19, 2005 "Construction budget emphasizes community development projects in Seattle" - Press Release - April 6, 2005 "Council Renews Commitment to Fund African American Museum" - Press Release - August 17, 2005 "The Urban League Village is poised to become a reality" - Seattle PI - October 12, 2005 |Mission| |A Brief History| |Just The Facts| |Documents | |Press Archives| |Current| |What We Want| |Programs| |Internet Links| |Contact Us| |Event Calendar|